Without doubt, tribal enrollment offices are becoming a focal point of controversy when issues of eligibility and dis-enrollment arise. For example, will your
office face with these controversial issues:
· Council arbitrarily votes to alter enrollment criteria contrary to the enrollment office's recommendations and/or laws
· Tribal court renders a decision to allow membership to individuals previously denied membership by the enrollment committee or Tribal Council
· Tribal or General Council unwittingly violates its own enrollment laws?
To "survive" such challenges, the enrollment office needs to be well-informed, must know when their jurisdiction needs to yield to a higher authority, and also
needs to know when to staunchly assert its legal mandate when a difficult decision needs to be supported.
This workshop is designed to instruct both the new tribal enrollment staff and committee members, as well as the more experienced staff and committee members
and work from the basics to the more complex. This is a workshop for tribal enrollment staff, committee members, tribal judges and tribal council
members.
Topics to Include: See Individual Downloadable Agendas and Registration Forms to the Right
Day 1: 9:00am to 4:30pm General Session
The Methods of Filing Records
Areas of Records And File Management for Every Department
Benefits of Records and File Management to the Tribe
Faster Retrieval of Information
Retention Requirement Compliance
Getting Tribal Council Support
Freedom of Information Act
Blood Quantum
Alternatives to BQ
File Complience
Understanding BQ Projections
Ensuring Complience with your Constitution and Ordinance
Day 2: 9:00am to 4:30pm General Session
Separation of Powers between the Tribal Council, Enrollment Committee, and the Enrollment Staff
Functions of the Tribal Enrollment Committee
Discussion on Revised Rules on Native Status
Understanding your Tribal Constitution and Tribal Enrollment Ordinance
The Roll of the Committee Chair
The Role of the Committee Member
Facilitators
Ms. Karen Hall
Senior Associate DCIAmerica
Ms. Karen Hall is an active member of the Consortium of Native American Parliamentarians and a senior associate consultant with DCIAmerica. Her expertise in
implementing training ranges from Robert's Rules of Order, office management, information technology, supervisory training, and on a variety of other related
issues such as time-management, mediation, board and staff relationships, and team building.
Ms. Hall has participated in courses with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crimes), and has represented tribal
interests in a variety of culturally-sensitive issues.
In the past, Ms. Hall has held administrative positions within the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, as full-time faculty member at the Little Priest Tribal College
in Nebraska and most recently at Nebraska Indian Community College, teaching such courses as computer applications and operating systems, and a variety of
business courses.
Ms. Hall has earned a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration degree from Bellevue University, Nebraska, and has attended courses at Perdue University
and West Los Angeles School of Law.
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